When John McKenna was born on 4 May 1842, in Toronto, York, Canada West, British North America, his father, Patrick McKenna, was 44 and his mother, Isabella Elizabeth Scanlon, was 30. He married Rose McGillick on 29 April 1867, in Sangamon, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He immigrated to Springfield, Sangamon, Illinois, United States in 1868 and lived in Hume Township, Slope, North Dakota, United States in 1920 and Township of Hume, Whiteside, Illinois, United States in 1920. He died on 20 February 1920, in Whiteside, Illinois, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Sterling, Whiteside, Illinois, United States.
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Irish and Scottish: variant of McKinney 1. McKenna (Gaelic Mac Cinaedha) was the surname of an Irish chieftain family in northwest Monaghan, barony of Trough.
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